Impersonality
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Impersonality may refer to:
- Impersonal passive voiceImpersonal passive voiceThe impersonal passive voice is a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb to zero.The impersonal passive deletes the subject of an intransitive verb. In place of the verb's subject, the construction instead may include a syntactic placeholder, also called a dummy. This...
, a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb to zero - Impersonal verbImpersonal verbIn linguistics, an impersonal verb is a verb that cannot take a true subject, because it does not represent an action, occurrence, or state-of-being of any specific person, place, or thing...
, a verb that cannot take a true subject